Managing licenses - 8.0

Talend Administration Center User Guide

Version
8.0
Language
English
Product
Talend Big Data
Talend Big Data Platform
Talend Data Fabric
Talend Data Integration
Talend Data Management Platform
Talend Data Services Platform
Talend ESB
Talend MDM Platform
Talend Real-Time Big Data Platform
Module
Talend Administration Center
Content
Administration and Monitoring
Last publication date
2024-02-20
Note: Only users that have the Security Administrator role and rights can have access to this page. For further information on access rights, see User roles/rights in the Administration Center.
Tip: A license audit can help you ensure you are within your license agreement. For more information, see Conducting a license audit.

From the license page in Talend Administration Center, an administrator can:

In the Menu tree view, click Licenses to display the license parameters for the Administration Center. The parameters displayed may vary depending on your license.

The Available users area shows the number of users created in the current active licenses, as well as the sum of users allowed in these active licenses.

The Stored license keys area shows all licenses and their parameters. If the Show inactive option is not selected, only the active licenses are displayed in the area.

The All active license runtime details area shows the number of CPU cores allowed by the licenses for ESB servers, the actual number of CPU cores used by all active ESB servers, and the number of active ESB servers.
  • Licensed cores: total number of the licensed cores (number of servers allowed by the license x 4)
  • Used Cores: total number of the used cores (server1 cores, server2 cores, server3 cores, server4 cores, server5 cores)
    • the maximum number of server cores shown in the brackets is 5.
    • If there are more than 5 active servers, they are shown as (server1 cores, server2 cores, server3 cores, server4 cores, ..., serverLast cores). If you point your mouse over this field, a tooltip will be shown where all server cores are listed.
  • Used Servers: number of the active ESB servers

The license parameters provide the following information:

Field/Tab

Description

License mode

Concurrent users: This mode allows you to create as many users as necessary. However, only defined number of users are authorized to use Talend Studio and / or Talend Administration Center simultaneously.

Named users: This mode allows you to create a limited number of users authorized to connect to Talend Studio and / or Talend Administration Center. This authorization is based on the user's login.

For the above two license modes, a user is not allowed to connect simultaneously to two instances of Talend Studio and/or Talend Administration Center, but the user can simultaneously access both.

Mixed license: This mode allows you to combine concurrent and named users. You get a maximum number of defined users and a maximum number of connected users. On the Users page, in the Count Policy field, you define for each user if it is a named or concurrent user.

Note: In case of a crash of Talend Studio or of Talend Administration Center, your connection will be retained when you restart the application.

Data Integration/ESB

Indicates the number of created users out of the maximum number of users authorized to work on Data Integration or ESB projects.

Data Management

Indicates the number of created users out of the maximum number of users authorized to work on Data Management projects.

Master Data Management

Indicates the number of created users out of the maximum number of users authorized to work on Master Data Management projects.

ESB Runtime

Indicates the number of ESB Talend Runtime instances authorized.

Data Preparation

Indicates the number of created users out of the maximum number of users authorized to work on Data Preparation projects. This license type only includes Named users.

Data Stewardship

Indicates the number of created users out of the maximum number of users authorized to work on Data Stewardship projects. This license type only includes Named users.

Admin User

Indicates the number of created users out of the maximum number of users authorized to perform Administrative operations. This license type includes both Named and Concurrent users.

Product

Name of the Talend product.

Version

Version of the Talend product.

Expiration

License expiration date.

Expires in (days)

Number of days left before the license expires.

Runtime

Number of runtime servers allowed in the license.

The Open button allows you to display the details (instances number and type, to be used in Production or not, etc.) of the runtime servers allowed for the selected license.

Note that if you add several licenses that contain runtime servers, the sum of these runtime servers is displayed in the All active runtime details area.

Talend Cloud

Indicates whether Talend Cloud is included in the license.

Active

Status of the license. It can be either active () or inactive ().

Regularly all products counted strictly: 1 User Type + Role assignment = 1 unit in license with the corresponding type. But there are some exceptions from the rules:

License Type Product Not counted Counted in license / login
Concurrent / Named Master Data Management (MDM) Master Data Management Web User + Interactive user / Web user Master Data Management Web User + System Admin / Administrator
Concurrent / Named Talend Administration Center (TAC) NPA + Security Administrator / Viewer All other types

Also Talend Data Fabric license have the Administrative Use role hat includes rights for Security Administrator and Administrator.

If your license is not or no longer valid, you can always access the Users page and remove or disable a user account, such as when you have changed the license and your new license allows fewer users than the old one.

Note: A warning message will be displayed 20 days before your license expiration date and 10 days before your token expiration date.